It's been already two months at work...
Seriously, it's been quite fun working currently as a Trainee Executive in Underwriting at First Capital Insurance, especially with the two ladies stationed in the two cubicles behind mine. I never fail to "eavesdrop" on their telephone conversation when they pick up a call or call out to brokers. What cracks me up is when they are so courteous to the broker when they are on the line. Before you know it, they hang up the phone & start mouthing away - "Stupid! So stupid! Can't stand this broker! Why so stupid..." This kind of scenario just makes me laugh out loud deep inside~! HAHAHA...
I think I've also been very lucky to have two very friendly, very helpful, very kind and patient managers whom really spare part of their busy schedule to explain things to me, imparting their vast knowledge to me, making sure that I understand what's going on and what is it that I'm doing... I truly believe that both of these lady managers are a Godsend to me.
The good thing about working in Raffles place, is that it's very close to my home via the North East Line (NEL), with an change over to the North-south Line at Dhoby Ghaut Interchange. I can leave home at 8:30am and still arrive at work on time. That's gotta be good! Plus I get to dress up smartly for work too, in my shirt & tie, pants & leather shoes.
The bad thing is the food... Everything in the CBD area just seems to be that much more expensive. Even the cheapest food will be in the range of $3.50 to $5.50~! And if you know me, you know that I am a big eater~! HEHEHE... And all that eating and sitting in the office only serves to make me become a fatter man~! Totally against all that I stand for... HAHAHA... I must slim down, must stay healthy, must stay fit~! More gym, more weights, more runs~! HAHAHA
And another thing about lunch... is who you are lunching with, your lunch buddy in short. Almost all the ladies in the office belong to the "eat-in" group, which means they always 'take away' their lunch & eat it in the office... in the comfort of air-conditioning minus the stinky smell they get from the food courts and eating places. So that leaves me with not much of a choice for a lunch buddy except for another colleague that entered the company at the same time with me. Those who know me understand that basically I'm very easy to get along, unless you get on my nerves in some way or another. But once you get on my bad books, your name is pretty much there to stay... (yeah, that's right) Well, at first I was pretty much okay with this colleague, but as time passes, I realised that I just simply can't stand him.
Of course, it may not be fault on his part, he may well be being himself. However that still doesn't change the fact that I can't stand him now. It's my perspective, my opinion, but I just don't like people flaunting their knowledge in front of me or keep informing me how much work they have done in the office. I just feel what he says, how he speaks and how he acts is very much fake, rehearsed & done for the sake of currying favors with others...
When he is with other colleagues, it just seems as though he MUST start a conversation with the other person. It feels as though he is purposely making it a point to start a conversation. This point to me, seems pretty fake and I can't stand it. He can even bring up things that have the remotest connection to the situation at that moment, to try to strike a conversation. In my dictionary, I call that "trying too hard". (Well people, don't judge me. I'm just voicing out my opinion. They don't necessary have to be right, simply because they are my opinions.)
So now, if you ask me, I really rather lunch alone by myself in the food court or take away back to the office, then to have lunch with someone I can't stand but have to pretend to be fine with... That is how working in real life pretty much is like - we all have to don our masks and pretend to be someone we're not, just to get along with others, to have a functional working relationship, to survive in this urban jungle. So you can't just shake him off at lunch, neither do you know how to break the news that you rather lunch alone if things go on like that...
Anyway, enough talk about my lunch buddy.
All I know is that I have another four months to learn and experiment, and it will be the end of my probation period, and most probably following my "promotion" to an Executive. Can't wait till then but on the other hand, it may also mean that my workload will seriously increase, as I've seen many of the "senior employees" staying after work, doing overtime, including my two lady managers... it may also mean working on Saturdays as well. But well, we'll take things one at a time...
(Wish me luck in my new workplace... till then.
All the best of luck to my friends having their exams in NTU~!!!) =]
